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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

"Interessante Capitano!"

Ah, just what I always suspected: Spock is really Italian.A vidder from Rome presents here all the times Spock says "Fascinating"--in Italian! And it sounds better, too. If you go to her site [click on the youTube icon on the vid] she lists all the Italian names of the episodes, which is kind of fun.

I just thought these were a hoot--and I'd love to hear them in other languages too.

As you see in a later post, Anna Francesca gave me two translations for "Beam Me Up, Scotty," formal and familiar, which I thought raised such an interesting point--who speaks to whom in which form, and when. Adds all sorts of possibilities for flavoring relationships (like when Spock calls Kirk "Jim.")

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Quote of the Moment

“We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it’s really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.”